The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of TravelHumboldt Publishing Company, 1889 - 774 pages |
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Page 665
... insects , A strongly contrasted in their structure and manner of growth . I amassed at Caripí a very large collection of beautiful and curious insects , amounting altogether to about twelve hundred species . The number of Coleoptera was ...
... insects , A strongly contrasted in their structure and manner of growth . I amassed at Caripí a very large collection of beautiful and curious insects , amounting altogether to about twelve hundred species . The number of Coleoptera was ...
Page 692
... insects appear simulta- large level tract of campo bordering the neously with the flowers . This season pools , and the Troupials come to feed on the might be considered the equivalent of sum- larvæ of insects which then abound in the ...
... insects appear simulta- large level tract of campo bordering the neously with the flowers . This season pools , and the Troupials come to feed on the might be considered the equivalent of sum- larvæ of insects which then abound in the ...
Page 693
... insects generally flew round over the place before making straight off . Another nearly allied but much larger species , the Monedula signata , whose habits I observed on the banks of the Upper Ama- zons , sometimes excavates its mine ...
... insects generally flew round over the place before making straight off . Another nearly allied but much larger species , the Monedula signata , whose habits I observed on the banks of the Upper Ama- zons , sometimes excavates its mine ...
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